La Niña is about to ghost winter in the West like a Tinder match.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Much of the Tahoe Basin woke up Monday morning to a dusting of snow covering the scorched landscape like powdered sugar sprinkled over burnt French Toast. Let’s stop and look for a moment, shall we?
https://twitter.com/squawalpine/status/788032012623892480
https://twitter.com/KirkwoodMtn/status/788049612695220225
https://twitter.com/Northstar_CA/status/788437336946200577
And even one in black and white:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLqzKnABlVW/
...You get the...

Just the facts.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
My first boss and mentor ran a political PR firm in San Francisco. During my first week on the job, we were hosting a cocktail party for Mayor Willie Brown to launch a clean drinking water proposal for the city.
He pulled me aside at the event and gave me three pieces of can’t-go-wrong advice...

It's human 'N'ature to not want to work very hard unless it comes to picking fights with local media and ghost writing press releases taking credit for things that would have happened anyway.
Written by Kyle Magin
It takes $42,000 to hire a bully.
That’s how much Sandy Evans-Hall, the CEO of the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, got in taxpayer dollars...

With plans to break ground in 2017 on a massive mountain redevelopment, we’re not saying the Basin’s most notorious big-ski-structure firestarter Alex Cushing would be proud ...but…
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Homewood Mountain Resort will suspend all skiing activities Wednesday after a fire broke out at the resort’s south lodge shortly after 3 a.m. The two-alarm fire decimated the building...

Attempting to solve skiing's toughest question: How can I enjoy the sport when it’s the end times?
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Several years ago, I was alone trolling around Deer Valley’s Empire Canyon on a Tuesday morning. The night before had delivered eight inches of new snow and by 10 a.m. the clouds had parted to let in some rare,...

The mistake of Beijing as host of the 2008 summer games is all but forgotten in wake of disastrous decision to award the 2022 winter games...to Beijing. BTW, has the Olympic Torch ever been used to light a city on fire?
By Andrew Pridgen
The IOC this week chose Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics based on the 2008...

We were shitty in Pyeongchang because we’ve allowed ourselves to become a shitty country. Unless there are big political and cultural changes afoot, don’t expect the news to get better in the years to come.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
The good news is a world-record amount of fucking went on in Pyeongchang South Korea over the last two weeks, 110,000...